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Seth Grahame-Smith wants to resurrect ‘Beetlejuice,’ ‘It’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comTwo months ago, Seth Grahame-Smith looked like he would be the breakout star of a crowded summer movie season. The ...... -
Feedback: What couple in literature do you go gaga for?
Anne and Gilbert from "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery! Not only did I want to be her and find my Gilbert, I also wanted to replicate their family and name my eight children the same names as theirs. (This was when I was 11 years old. I'll...
Tags: Margaret Mitchell, Harry Potter (fictional character), Helen Fielding, Charles Dickens
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Richard Robbins dies at 71; film composer had 2 Oscar nods
Richard Robbins, the composer who created memorable scores for such films as "A Room With a View," "Howards End" and "The Remains of the Day" during a quarter-century collaboration with director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, has died. He was...
Tags: Joanne Woodward, Carnegie Hall, Parkinson's Disease, Music, Roseland
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Poetry contest winners
When we announced the first Printers Row poetry contest in April, original poems came cascading in. We are happy to announce our winner, Caroline Johnson, of Willow Springs, and finalists Beth Swann, of Charlotte, N.C., and Ruth Bavetta of San Clemente,...
Tags: Weather, Poetry, Weather Reports
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Anniversary song tells of chorus's ability
When the Orange County Women's Chorus commissioned Kirke Mechem to compose a piece to celebrate their 15th anniversary, he gave them "We Can Sing That" — a song about how the choir can perform any kind of music effortlessly. If Mechem had titled...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Christianity, Music Industry, Entertainment, Opera (genre)
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James Wood champions realism in new book of essays
There's a certain type of reader — often also a writer, with a leaf-fring'd MFA — who has it all figured out. The realist novel is a scam, a factory producing cardboard imitations of bourgeois life. This is the person at the party who mentions...Tags: John Updike, Authors, James Joyce, Julian Barnes, Religion and Belief
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Dr. Moreland Perkins, philosophy professor
Dr. Moreland Perkins, a philosophy professor who taught at the University of Maryland, College Park and was also former mayor of Riverdale Park, died Nov. 7 of pneumonia at St. Joseph Medical Center.
The Roland Park resident was 85.
"Moreland was highly...Tags: Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), St. Joseph Medical Center, Literature, Arts and Culture, Pneumonia
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A perilous journey for 'Life of Pi' director Ang Lee
The critics and reporters assembled to watch the new “Life of Pi” a few weeks ago weren't expecting a filmmaker introduction, but in stepped the ever-soft-spoken Ang Lee to inform them that this had been his hardest film to make and that...
Tags: Amelie (movie), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Pacific Ocean, James Schamus, Ang Lee
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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson walk 'Twilight' red carpet
It may seem like "Twilight" is coming to a close -- what with thousands of fans descending upon Los Angeles Monday night for the premiere of the final film. But the journey isn't yet over for the stars of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2," who...Tags: Kristen Stewart, Twilight (movie), Entertainment, Bill Condon, Movies
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Intellectuals, spy at the center of McEwan's 'Sweet Tooth'
Ian McEwan's “Sweet Tooth” tells the story of a young woman, Serena Frome, who graduates from Cambridge in the early 1970s and enters the working world. Since Frome's employer happens to be MI5, the working world, in her case, is the world...
Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Authors, Cambridge (England), England
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Lively performances carry 'Pride and Prejudice' at Patapsco Female Institute
Although Jane Austen lived nearly 200 years after William Shakespeare, they shared a literary sensitivity to the social rituals that make courtship such a trying experience. That's why it isn't much of a stretch for the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company to...
Tags: Romance (genre), Discrimination, Celebrities, Entertainment, William Shakespeare
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Engaged Couple Take Lead In TheaterWorks' Psycho-Sexual 'Venus In Fur'
The Hartford CourantSexual scenes on stage between two actors are never easy. So when the Tony Award-nominated play by David Ives, "Venus in Fur," called for a riding crop, black patent leather thigh-high boots, dog collars and a slap or two of S&M, a fetishist element was...Tags: Tony Awards, Arts and Culture, Hugh Dancy, Science and Technology, Entertainment Events
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